General information

Call No.:

350-3-2:3/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-3-2 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Sierra Leone

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #3 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009775

Date of production

1996-10-24

Date

1996

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

2 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Footage of refugees who had been held as hostages by the RUF and used as slave laborers. They were liberated by a group of Kamajors on October 24, 1996, in the general vicinity of Blama, a town in the Kenema District of the Eastern province of Sierra Leone. Officials of the UN World Food Program (WFP) reported that the refugees were suffering from malnourishment.

Context

Associated Names

RTV (Creator/Author)